Blessed by the Hymns

Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve remembers a church service he attended in Okinawa during World War II: "We were anxious to be there and see who had survived and who would not show," he said. "As we began that meeting singing 'Come, Come, Ye Saints,' we watched carefully to see who might yet come even though we knew when certain individuals didn't come, they'd been killed or had been wounded. I don't remember a thing that was said at that meeting but I remember what we sang...